2006 Project Crew
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Sheli O. Smith, PhD
Project Director,
Napa, California |
Dr. Sheli O. Smith brings to the PAST Foundation a
strong background in museum work and archaeological interpretation for
both K-12 and public audiences. Her particular research interests
include lifeways at sea and the ways those are reflected in the layout
of ships, and trade networks in the Pacific in the 18th and 19th
centuries. For the past 20 years, Dr. Smith has focused primarily Gold
Rush-era shipwreck sites, located in California, the South Pacific and
the Indian Ocean. Among the projects she has worked on in her career are
the1779 American privateer brig Defense (located in Maine), the
c. 1710 Ronson Ship (New York), the 1864 American clipper ship Snow
Squall (Falkland Islands), the 1859 American barque La Grange
(Sacramento), the 1855 American barque Julia Ann (Tahiti), and
the Emerald Bay, California State Underwater Park.
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Anne Corscadden
Project Assistant Director |
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Anne’s research interests
include the archaeology of shipwrecks, maritime cultural landscapes and
submerged cultural resources. She has international experience in both
marine and terrestrial environments, involving G.I.S, side-scan and
sub-bottom sonar. Anne has a Bsc. Honours in Archaeology from Queens
University, Belfast and a Msc. in Maritime Archaeology from University
of Ulster. She is a fully qualified commercial diver having obtained
her HSE Part 1 (surface supplied, wet bell, diver rescue) from Fort
William, Scotland. Anne was appointed Dive Master on a previous PAST
program, Frolic, in 2004
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Carina King
Dive Safety Officer,
Singapore |
Carina King teaches sport management at Stetson
University in DeLand, Florida. Her research areas include risk
recreation, scuba psychographics and youth sport. Carina previously
served as a research associate and the Dive Safety Officer at the Office
of Underwater Science at Indiana University. Originally from Singapore,
Carina loves the outdoors; her hobbies include adventure travel and rock
climbing.
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Renee Post
Kansas |
Renee Post is
currently working on her BA in Maritime Studies with a minor in
Anthropology at the University of West Florida. Renee has previous
excavation experience from a Coronado site in the panhandle of Texas
through Wichita State University and is currently a volunteer for the
2006 field school at UWF which is conducting research on several vessels
including a sunken steam paddleboat that has yet to be identified in the
Black Water River in Alabama.
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Shawn Arnold
Pensacola, Florida |
Shawn Arnold is
currently working towards a BA in Maritime Studies at University of West
Florida with minors in Anthropology and Environmental Sciences. He is
presently a volunteer on a UWF field school which is studying several
sites in Northwest Florida and an unidentified steamboat in Alabama.
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Sarah Wilson |
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Charles Wyche |
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Chris Cartellone
Bettendorf, Iowa |
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Chris’ research interests
include the archaeology and history of European imperialism, War and
Society as a catalyst for change, the 19th century seafaring
transition from sail to steam, social identity, and long-distance
exchange networks of ideas through trade. He holds a master's degree
in Maritime Studies from East Carolina University, Greenville, North
Carolina, and currently works as a contract archaeologist. Chris is
looking forward to earning his PhD in historical maritime archaeology.
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Pruitt Brown |
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Pruitt Brown is from Asheville,
North Carolina. Currently he attends Warren Wilson College, where he is
studying Mathematics and loving it. When it is fun time, he enjoys bike
riding, kicking it with friends, hanging out on the beach (a 5 hour
drive) and volunteering for the biology department; yay for the
environment!
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Craig Stewart |
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Craig is a native Houstonian who
is currently a student at the University of Houston working toward a
B.A. in anthropology. He just returned from a month of terrestrial
archaeology field work in Natchitoches, Louisiana under Dr. Kenneth
Brown which examined West African influence in slave religious beliefs.
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Mike Traher |
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Rhonda Rodriguez |
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Rhonda Rodriguez is a native
Californian currently living in San Francisco studying Anthropology,
looking forward to her Masters. She has just spent a year on the ice in
Antarctica supporting scientific research and wants to do her
Masters thesis on the study of Robert F. Scott’s motorized sledge that
was lost under the Ross Sea. She loves adventure travel and never leaves
home without her feather boa and other small give away trinkets in her
backpack, as she discovered they make awesome ice breakers when in
unfamiliar territories!
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Byron Hartshorn |
Byron Hartshorn is a
recent graduate of the University of Central Florida, earning a
bachelors of arts degree in Anthropology. In college Byron traveled to
China as a delegate of the International Mission on Diplomacy to China
and landed his first major publication in Sea Classics magazine
during his sophomore year. Byron has worked on commercial underwater
survey projects in the past but the Slobadna marks his first
foray into a marine archaeology project. He spends his free time
kayaking, hiking, and diving and has ambitions to continue onto graduate
school.
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